Drama Movies 2023 List

With Tom Hanks • Marc Forster • Louise Rosner • Mariana Treviño • Rita Wilson • David Magee • Steven Shareshian • Celia Costas • Manuel Garcia-Rulfo • Gary Goetzman • Renée Wolfe • Fredrik Wikstrom Nicastro • Rachel Keller • Michael Porseryd • Tim King • Sudie Smyth • Neda Backman • Tor Jonasson

An ill-tempered, isolated retiree, who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.

With Gillian Jacobs • Roman Coppola • Gia Coppola • Joel McHale • Breeda Wool • Soledad St. Hilaire • Chido Nwokocha • Anthony Skordi • Sybil Azur • Emanuela Postacchini • Daniela Hernandez • Caroline Ducrocq • Joni Reiss • Jason Baum • Allison Amon

Jane (Gillian Jacobs) drops her daughter off at sleepaway camp and drives away from her mundane life into an exciting odyssey on the road. Jane’s obstacles, connections and moments were created playing a game of exquisite corpse—a method of creating art by collectively assembling random parts to create a whole.

With Frances Fisher • David Arquette • Irene Bedard • Amy Smart • William Mapother • Mariel Hemingway • Che Jim • Rebecca Tickell • Josh Tickell • Kerry Knuppe • David Midthunder

Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Reservation. The film follows Daniel (Mapother), a journalist and military veteran, and Elliot (Arquette), an oil company executive, who find themselves on opposite sides of the fight during the construction of the contentious pipeline. As the story unfolds, the two characters go down separate paths during one of the most heated protests and confrontations with Native American tribes in modern US history.

With François Cluzet • Fatoumata Kaba • Chantal Neuwirth • Audrey Lamy • Amadou Bah • Boubacar Balde • Mamadou Koita • Yannick Kalombo • Louis-Julien Petit • Liza Benguigui • Sophie Bensadoun

Cathy is an inflexible 40 years old sous-chef. This year, she is finally about to fulfill her lifelong dream by opening her own gastronomic restaurant. But nothing goes as planned. Facing serious financial difficulties, she reluctantly accepts a job in the cafeteria of a shelter for young migrants. While she hates her new position, Cathy’s skills and passion for cuisine start to change the kids’ lives. And they also have a lot to teach her…

With Alice Diop

The film follows the novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) as she attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanga), a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. As the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama’s convictions and call into question our own judgment.

With Ólafur Darri Ólafsson • Anita Briem • Birgir Dagur Bjarkason • Áskell Einar Pálmason • Viktor Benóný Benediktsson • Snorri Rafn Frímannsson • Ísgerður Gunnarsdóttir • Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As the group’s behavior escalates towards life-threatening situations, Addi begins to experience a series of dreamlike visions. Can his newfound intuition guide him and his friends back to a safer path, or will they dive irrevocably into further violence?

With Oliver Masucci • Philipp Stölzl • Birgit Minichmayr • Albrecht Schuch • Rolf Lassgård

Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis. Dr. Josef Bartok (Oliver Masucci) is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts in order to fund the Nazi regime. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. Just as his mind is beginning to crack, Bartok happens upon a book of famous chess games. To withstand the torture of isolation, Bartok disappears into the world of chess, maintaining his sanity only by memorizing every move. As the action flashes forward to a transatlantic crossing on which he is a passenger, it seems as though Bartok has finally found freedom. But recounting his story to his fellow travelers, it's clear that his encounters with both the Gestapo and with the royal game itself have not stopped haunting him.

With Nicolas Cage • Carl W. Lucas • Ryan Kiera Armstrong • Abraham Benrubi • Clint Howard • Brett Donowho • Noah Le Gros • Nick Searcy.

Academy Award® winner* Nicolas Cage stars in his first-ever Western as Colton Briggs, a cold-blooded gunslinger turned respectable family man. When an outlaw and his gang put Colton and his family in peril, Colton is forced to take up arms with an unlikely partner — his 12-year-old daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) — in this action-filled film that builds toward its fateful showdown with pulse-pounding suspense.

With Rob Lowe • Johnny Berchtold • Kimberly Williams-Paisley • Stephen Herek • Nick Santora

A young man and his father begin a desperate search to find their beloved dog Gonker on the Appalachian Trail before it’s too late.